Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-19
General Notes,

This III 'ruDg the Executive Board O
the Chant r OF Commerce met pursuan
TO cal. from the chairman, d. II. Peerv
to select the twelve standing committed
provided Tor ~ the bylaws of the or
ganzation, each of the directors except
the preslden. 10 be chairman of one O
the commit res. The good material on
hand, both in the directorate and thu
general membership, made the task O
selection satisfactory one. Now look
out Tor reai active business being done a
once
Byron West, OF tine Broom Hotel staff
has gone to Salt Lake City to attend a
brothers. we dding.
The Weber County Court Judge +.
w. Shurtlitf and Selectmen Joseph Han
ford, Thomas Wallace and Ammon
Green) met on Monday forenoon to take
official and formal cognizance of the pe-
tition OF the U. p R'y. Co., relative to
the proposed closing Of Fourth street.
Shurtlitf and Green were chosen as q
committee to take this important matter
under consideration and to confer with
the City Councils representatives and
the railroad delegates. The feeling.
though tardily expressed, now appears
to be favorable to mutually satisfactory
solution of the veXed problem, so that
the final work of the new depot building
will not suffer any unnecessary DELAYS,
There is no doubt that the Chamber of
Commerce, a ponderous body, will throw
heavy weight into the scales, so as to
lift Ogden high in the "verticality'l(Car-
lyle) of progress.
1t has not yet been publicly stated
but deserves to be recorded, that the
thirteen directors of the Ogden Chamber
OF Commerce represent a capital of yer
T2,0OO,OOO. This is an irrefutable ind lea
ton OF stability and weight, highly en-
couraging for the entire community.
P. p. Shelby passed through Ogden on
Monday forenoon, bound for Soda
Springs, where the Union Pacific Com
pany expect to make an outlay Of from
$4,000 to 100000 in new buildings and
other improvements. 1t is quite proba-
BILE that David Eccles will have a great
share in this, furnishing the building
lumber, etc
United States Commissioner H. G.
Wardleigh is out again, having risen
from his sick-bed. but not yet entirely
recovered from his illness.
The dog tax collector is making his
rounds to have dog owners square up
with dollar triangle. There are said to
be good many more than 500 CANNES
In this town. What revenue at So a
head
1t did not take microscope to detect |
snowfiakes in the air on Monday morn
ing, neither did it take a telescope in the |
afternoon to perceive good old storm in /
the gray folds of the sinister-looking, |
treacherous April skies.
Since wrote you last about the pros
poets and progress of the Mana iron !
mine, four miles from here, have been
shown some very promising specimens of
valuable iron ore from that property by
T. X. Little, one of the proprietors.
The Hook and Ladder boys will have a
meeting on Thursday evening.
Jno. Beatty, Jr., the ubiquitous So
licitor for st. Crispin's productions, has
come down from a successful northern
trip.
j. w. McNutt has just returned from
his stock ranch, thirty-five miles north
of Corrinne, near Toponce's hacienda.
He reports the grass in luxuriant verdure
and the cattle in a fine state of bovine
blissfulness.
Deputy Henry +. Steele has come
back to his headquarters.
A. w. Jones, U. & n. machinist and
blacksmith, is down from Logan.
Ogden real estate is still changing
hands, each transfer enhancing the value
of property. The latest (the first of this
week. is the transfer of the best property
in Lynn, northern suburb of this city.
1t is a two-story brick residence and two
acre lot on the northeast corner of what
known as Five Points. 1t formerly be-
longed to H. G. Hartag and then passed
into the hands of E. E. Clark, who now
has again sold it back to Mr.. Hartog for
$1,000. Mr.. James Iverson was the
agent who perfected the trade. More
real estate transactions are on the tapis,
to be duly recorded in this column. .
l learn that last week, the deputy mar
Shals again did their very best in Cache
Valley to give force and practical Iappli-
cation to the Edmunds law by the appre- +,
henson of polygamist offenders. In Par
2dlse alone, sort of suburb to Logan,
lHey arrested six cohabs, four of whom Q
were duly bound over by L. S. Commits
Sloner G. G. Goodwin, while two were :
discharged for lack of convicting evil {
oence mot for individual innocence by
any mean. While in the execution of
Shelr DUTY, the officers of the Federal
law were not a little hampered, bad
gereG, leased and troubled. tone time
a mop OF 100, got together to annoy the
deputies and to brighten them in the
course OF Their sworn duties. But thew 9
all proved the true kind of steel and did
what their warrants justified them in
doing '' ~
As is well known, Ogden CITY. in =;
consequence ofthe purchase of the Ogden